PsychiatryThoroughly updated for its Seventh Edition, this House Officer Series volume will remain a best-seller among medical students in psychiatry clerkships, psychiatric residents, other mental health professionals, and primary care physicians. This succinctly written pocket-sized textbook provides the key information readers need to succeed in rounds and pass board exams. Chapters provide complete, up-to-the-minute coverage of all major disorders, psychotherapies, and biological therapies. Diagnostic discussions are aligned with DSM-IV-TR and treatment recommendations are given in stepwise fashion. This edition describes several new disorders, provides greater coverage of psychotherapies, offers up-to-date information on psychopharmacology, and includes contemporary neuroscience and molecular genetics. |
Contents
Psychotic Disorders | 20 |
Mood Disorders | 40 |
Delirium and Amnestic and Other | 56 |
Dementia | 62 |
Suicidal and Assaultive Behaviors | 72 |
Anxiety Disorders | 81 |
Dissociative Disorders | 93 |
Conditions which Mimic | 105 |
Psychiatry of Drug Abuse | 154 |
Psychosexual Disorders | 176 |
Sleep Disturbances | 186 |
Personality Disorders | 195 |
Mental Retardation | 203 |
The Psychotherapies | 207 |
Biological Therapy | 215 |
The Elderly Patient | 260 |
Psychosomatic Disorders | 116 |
Psychiatric Symptoms of Nonpsychiatric | 126 |
Psychiatric Presentations of Medical Disease | 131 |
Psychiatry of Alcohol | 142 |
Legal Issues | 267 |
ImpulseControl Disorders | 274 |